This article is part of a series that will delve into the history of the Trinity Site Test, which marked its 80th anniversary ...

Archbishop John C. Wester, clad in black and flanked by two other New Mexico Catholic bishops, stood poised to venture into the White Sands Missile Range with plans to pray for peace and the ...

The Trinity test exploded with the blast of 24 kilotons—the equivalent of 24,000 tons of TNT (a bit more powerful than the 12- and 20-kiloton bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki).

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – On this day, 80 years ago, the United States Military tested the first atomic bomb at the Trinity Site here in New Mexico. An event that would forever change the nature of … ...

Downwinders and other survivors of NM's nuclear legacy mark the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, amid RECA expansion ...

On July 16, 1945 — 80 years ago — the federal government detonated the first atomic bomb in the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico. That test, known as the Trinity Test, changed the world — and it ...

A crowd of activists, politicians, journalists and New Mexico Department of Transportation employees gathered on the side of U.S. 380 Wednesday to unveil a new sign commemorating ...

The 80th anniversary of the Trinity test is a good time to question and put the brakes on current plans for major pit production at Los Alamos National Laboratory. According ...